Articles like this one are very important to circulate. Too many young women out there don't realize what a horror show it was before it was legalized.

Remember, making abortion illegal only stops the safe ones. Antiabortion laws kill women.

I had thought to go that route. Basterds is my intentional misspelling cause I was grinding my teeth. The woman was forced to take second rate medical help because of her fears and from her poverty. For those with power who are opposed to betterment of this woman's situation, their proposed enlightenment has nothing to do with religion or morality, but with deliberately creating fear to maintain their control and power. This woman and the fetus she had at one time are nothing more than flesh and meat to them.



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to ensure that women, especially women in immigrant communities, are not placed in danger.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/us/20doctor.html

It has to be honest regulation, designed to protect women, not to make getting an abortion difficult.

I remember in college when we took up a collection to send one of us to Haiti for an abortion.
We didn't know if she'd come back alive. We were terrified for her.
Fortunately she did survive, but many other women didn't make it.
Women had back-alley procedures, performed by people with no medical training.

Roe put an end to this. And these sick bastards want to turn the clock backward and start this all over.

that happened recently. I think Roe made abortion safe for those with money, but not for those without.

If abortion were available in more than a few places, then women wouldn't have to put their lives in the hands of scam artists and murderers.

I often say this to my friends who want to outlaw abortions...

they don't like to hear it.

I say, "that's unfortunate...for you..."

You really put it well---gets to the punch quickly and efficiently.

"Pro-Life" KILLS.

It's not choice, for women, it's life or death.

I do remember it made a big impression on me when I read it. Because it is absolutely true. The logic on this is irrefutable. We have the statistics from countries in the world that have outlawed abortion and seen what happens.

and after. I heard the whispered conversations about friends who'd tried to get an illegal abortion... and some disastrous consequences.

I quiver with rage thinking of the PIGS who would drag us back to those days. Making abortion illegal won't stop it, it just makes it dangerous.

Today, poor women can't get to a medical specialist to help them because we've made abortion a dirty word again thanks to the right wing. Some states have nobody there for them... it's a tragedy.

Thanks for an excellent article. Wish I could rec this a million times....

other than I am glad Dr. Jen was there to save this young woman's life.

I truly didn't get the struggle until that point (I was quite uninformed). I was raised in a time (and country) where it was easier and choice, when I was a teen, was taken for granted. My mom never told me these things, even though she lived through that period of time, and those stories. I make darn sure I discuss this with my daughters. We absolutely CANNOT go back to that. Ever.

every now and then I think of the fact that there are no memorials to women.....well, wait, there are the occasional statues of the anonymous mother and child, but they are saccharine paeans to a narrow role that does not recognize the humanity of women themselves....they never give me that bittersweet feeling of loss combined with swelling pride that a memorial is supposed to elicit.

But something true and deep, a recognition of Women and the heroism women have shown even as we have been treated as possessions and less than human; that is what women deserve.

I had a friend who was orphaned at 7, when her mother died from an illegal abortion, this was about in 1959.